Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-01
C MISCELLANY.

Mr.. j. R Wade's many friends will be
glad to learn that he is slowly improving
from his severe illness.
I VIM. Mcdonald, general agent Of the Com.
mercial Insurance Company, San Francis.
CO. CAL, is in the city, the guest of Colonel
Curtis.
Yesterday morning about 9 O'Clock a
miner named John Crowley VAS slightly
| hurt in the St. Lawrence mine by falling
down one floor in the slopes.
It is on the tapis in Helena that John
Mcguire should receive a complimentary
benefit there. and the Independent suggests
that he should receive one in every town in
Montana where he represents the drama.
Butte should take the initial and give O
| a rousing house right here to start in with.
A fine tenor singer of high reputation in
| England, who has made his name in con-
| tests against the best in fair and open com
| petition, Prof. Thomas H. Blight, can be
/ listened to here at the evening service in
| the Mountain View Church.
The Parnell Band Ball takes place to-
| morrow evening and all the friends and
| admirers of that excellent company should
| be present to make their benefit q bumper.
| Nearly two hundred tickets are already
sold. One member of Company B, Emmett
| Guards, has sold s~eventy-five tickets for
them.
The Switzer tunnel in Park Canyon is
into the side of the mountain 42O feet
prosecuting lodges. In the last fifty feet
a very promising lead was struck. This 10
Immediately under the railroad. tunnel. 1t
is the intention to cut through the differ
ent lodges for a distance OF eight hundred
| feet which will be completed by September.
0u-l- HE--s~- &0-rnnr1v ~ thu
| Hoffman House, New York City, has &C.
cepted the position of herd barkeeper at
| the sampler ooms of Jack Dowd, corner
of Galena and Main streets. Mr.. Marion
| ia an expert mixolcgist and knows how to
| refresh the inner a By the way the
| celebrated Orange Blossom cigar, the finest
brand in the country, can be obtained only
at Mr.. Dowd's and one other house in the
| city. They are daisies.
Mr.. Pinkham is enthusiastic on the cele-
bration to be held here on the Fourth. He
said yesterday he knew OF one man who
had ordered $125 worth Of decorations.
An effort will be made to induce "a many
civic societies to take part in the process
sion al possible, and it is ardently to be
wished that the Knights of Labor here
would take Powderly's recent advice and
turn out in a body. They OF themselves
would make an imposing sight.
Mile. Rhea paid Manager Mcguire a most
fitting compliment last night at the termi-
nation of her engagement concerning the
magnificence of the stage settings for all her
plays during the week. No expense What
ever was spared in giving Rhea fitting sur
roundings, and the theater-goers OF Butte
can we'll take pride in the truly m%etropoli'
tan manner that Manager Mcguire pro-
duces every play at the Grand Opera
House..
sample of Family Fiction, 1.-The great
international weekly" was received yes.
terday at this Office, and a casual perusa!
goes to show that it il one OF the best Of
it's class. The contents are original sto-
les. some of them Transitions from the
French and German. 1t is published in
Washington, and there is an insurance
feature of $50 to every subscriber during
1887 that il a novel idea. The subscrip-
ton is only So a year. Mr.. Fred Kertb
has received 5000 copies for distribution.
Call at The MINER office and secure one.